Andrea & Grant in Belpre, OH

Andrea had just finished graduate school in Dayton when she moved to Minnesota’s Twin Cities area for a job opportunity. After a month in the area, she decided to try and meet some new people through Match.com, one of whom was Grant. “We went out on our first date and never looked back,” Andrea says. The Bride Andrea Spence, 26, archivist The Groom Grant Pudas, 30, benefits insurance broker The Date October 21 A year later, Grant took her to a lovely steakhouse dinner in downtown Minneapolis, followed by a horse-drawn carriage ride. “I was sure he wouldn’t propose to me that night because it would be too predictable,” she says. Grant proved her wrong, though, and with strangers cheering in the background, he asked her to be his wife.